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This feels... unoriginal. Bland.

Maybe it gets better?

I'm starting out this book already knowing the main things that will happen. (Katniss and Peeta watch a tape of Haymitch's game, and an outline of everything that happens in it is given, in the first trilogy.) But... I'm curious to see how it happened. To see who Haymitch was before. < 3

The book isn't clean. It's Ancient Rome. Nero. But it doesn’t glory in the vileness, add to it, or say more than necessary.

The greatest flattery, is to tell someone they don't enjoy being flattered.

"There is no respect for hidden music."

'What would it be like to forgive so easily? To forgive like a child? One who keeps no record of wrongs?'

An amazing book! I can hardly put it down.
Wow...

Light the lamps.
"May you be like Ephraim and Manasseh."
"May you be like Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah."
"May God bless you and protect you. May God show you favor and be gracious to you. May God show you kindness and grant you peace."

'Blessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe, who creates happiness and joy, groom and bride. Exultation, delight, amusement, and pleasure, love and brotherhood, peace and friendship. Blessed are You, Lord, who makes the groom rejoice with the bride.

Say wedding vows on their knees.

Shattering sunlight

Must the tears linger forever unshed in his heart?

Pg. 147

"I can't control my heart."
"Nonsense. Of course you can."

Coverdale translated the Bible into English? Who was he? Do we know much?

'The heart breaks quietly. No one can hear.'

Pg. 275

'Some things are more important than being safe.'

'History is tiring. The weight of all those other lives can press you down.'

"That depends on your goal, to survive or achieve."

Samuel Slator and Hannah Wilkinson

John Alden, Alice Southworth, Bathsheba LA Broche

Margaret Corbin
Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley

Water-and-cider carriers- Molly Pitchers

I didn't think I could have less regard for Samuel Adams. Apparently I could.
I also knew the Boston Massacre was fishy, blown out of proportion. But... just HOW fish-smelling I didn't know.

Good for John Adams. Doing the right, hard, thing.

Eli Whitney
Elkanah Watson
Levi Coffin
Hinton Rowan Helper

I think I'll continue this book... But something amazing with have to happen in this or the next, or I think I won't be keeping my copies.

Drinking, drunkenness, swearing (about the owls' god) believing it's wrong but doing it often anyway, (owl) bathroom humor, disrespecting elders...
I'm willing to ignore the ghosts, but all of this... The things I haven't liked so far are compounding, and being added to.
The good's outweighed the bad, so far, for me. But... It's getting harder to think like that.

Ghost owls...

Long-nosed = Slow to anger

Short-nosed = Easily angered

2 Thess. 1:5-12

It's God's holiness that makes him hate the sin and love the sinner. I thought God's grace and holiness were paradoxes. But, is it His holiness, His perfect goodness, also what fill Him with a longing to show grace to those who harm themselves and others?